https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/i386/boot-usb-files.html
Actual result:
The installer image for USB sticks, which can use a local ISO to install from - hd-media/boot.img.gz - has a fairly small FAT size of 256MB. This means if I put the image directly on an USB stick using zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb1 and mount the USB stick, I will not be able to copy the ISO on the stick.
I have to have or create a new FAT file system on the stick and mount it, loop-mount the boot.img file, copy the contents to the stick, copy the ISO, umount it and run syslinux on the stick.
Expected result:
Please provide an image which has a default FAT size of 800MB-1GB, so that I can just write the image on the stick, mount it, copy an ISO onto it, and be done.
If you want to keep providing the 256MB image (I don't think it's necessary, though), then please provide another image with 1 GB in addition to it. It's only ~16 MB (per arch).
Importance:
USB sticks are extremely common and cheap these says, and most mainboards can boot from them. They probably will be the a favorite install media.
Not all machines have CD-ROM drives anymore. I also was very often in the situation of not having a blank CD available.
This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer - 20080522ubuntu1
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debian-installer (20080522ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low
* Bump hd-media image size to 800MB so that Ubuntu ISO images fit on them
(LP: #225402).
* Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
- Ubuntu branding of various kinds.
- Use Ubuntu kernels. Various tweaks for different udeb splits.
- Fetch distribution name and version number from lsb_release.
- Use the full version number in image directories.
- Build-depend on belocs-locales-bin.
- Various boot screen text adjustments.
- Add cli boot options.
- Add memtest boot option.
- Add live CD boot screens.
- Adjust memory size recommendations.
- Document pci=noacpi.
- Add translatable boot screen text for gfxboot. Adjust existing text to
refer to gfxboot UI where appropriate.
- Use ubuntu-keyring-udeb (and gpgv-udeb) instead of the Debian archive
keyring.
- Switch all images to initramfs.
- Add netboot images suitable for USB memory sticks.
- Remove floppy support, since it never used to work with 2.6. (This may
be fixed in the future.)
- Disable GTK frontend.
- Add kickseed-common and initrd-kickseed to all images containing
preseed-
- Add nfs-modules to all netboot images except powerpc, for Kickstart.
- kbd-chooser -> console-setup.
- Include keymap decision tree in all.utf.
- Replace cdebconf-
EXTRAUDEBS.
- Add bootchart-udeb to all images.
- Add hdparm-udeb to cdrom images.
- Add nic-firmware to netboot images and scsi-firmware to cdrom and
hd-media images.
- Make scsi-firmware optional.
- Add oem-config-check to all images.
- Ship elilo configuration on i386 for Intel-based Macs.
- Use mkvmlinuz's fallback object files on powerpc rather than relying
on the kernel's.
- Use ${RAMDISK_SIZE} in sparc's silo.conf rather than a hardcoded size.
- Add input-modules to the sparc netboot image.
- Remove auto-install/
- Switch i386 builds to the -generic kernel flavour.
- Add a new netboot/386 build for i386 that uses the -386 kernel
flavour.
- Publish separate kernel and initrd for sparc64 netboot.
* Backport from trunk:
- Test OMIT_WIN32_LOADER in arch_cd_info_dir and arch_miniiso targets as
well as arch_boot.
* Don't use win32-loader on Ubuntu.
* Set default suite to intrepid.
* Replace the splash image with a converted copy of the one we use for
gfxboot, which fits better with vesamenu.
* Adjust vesamenu margin to accommodate our menu item names.
* Move to 2.6.26-1 kernels.
* Temporarily disable netboot/386 for now; we don't seem to have the
pieces needed to build it.
debian-installer (20080522) unstable; urgency=low
[ Stephen R. Marenka ]
* Add atari keymaps to pkg-lists for m68k.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Lenny will be version 5.0.
* Improve consistency between x86 syslinux bootmethod help screens.
* Add nic-usb-modules to netboot images for x86 and ia64.
[ Otavio...